Welcome 2024! We’re giving ourselves a deadline and committing to connecting with you each week. We don’t speak often enough about the power of the DEADLINE and how it can help kids to write more. It’s working for us on this blog, and likely this is how it works in your writing life too! … Continue reading The Power of Deadlines
Whether you are homeschooling or sending your kids to school, doesn’t this time of year feel like NEW YEAR’S?Brand-spankin’ new pencils.Pristine notebooks.Lots of goals and hopes.Since you’re likely in the New Year’s mindset too, we want to suggest one goal you might try for this school year. It’s not a hard one, but it pays… Continue reading Start a Family Journal
Have you seen that old movie, Joe Versus the Volcano with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan?There is this GREAT scene where Joe Banks (Tom Hanks) needs some new luggage for his trip to a remote island (where he will be jumping into a volcano.)Have you seen that old movie, Joe Versus the Volcano with Tom… Continue reading WHY YOU CAN TRUST US
CAMP IS OVER! We’ve unloaded the camp boxes back into Carrie’s basement. We paid Westminster for their classrooms and thanked them for generously sharing their beautiful campus with us. We went to King’s English and paid them for the books we gave our campers. We said goodbye to our writing coaches and gave them huge… Continue reading Summer CAMP Round-Up 2023
Chances are if you have a reader on your hands, it won’t take much to turn them into a writer. Once they have the right setting and opportunity, they’ll just GO FOR IT. And you won’t be able to stop them.We talk to you a lot about the writing part. Here are a few suggestions… Continue reading Turn Your Kids Into Readers
May is literally a few days away and, before you know it, it’s a fast dash to summer. We want to help you be READY. That’s what our Summer Planning Mastermind on Instagram right now is all about.DAY ONE in our Mastermind series comes to you straight from the archives of 2008 when my girls (Carrie) were busy growing… Continue reading Amazing Summer Idea To Try With Your Kids
Schools hold creative writing sessions to foster children’s creative thinking, writing, and storytelling skills. However, these sessions are standard and may not cater to each child’s creative flights and avenues. However, you can engage your kids in creative writing at home if their school does not hold such sessions. It can seem difficult, but… Continue reading Top Tips For Creative Writing With Your Kids
PLAYGROUND SKILLS BUILD WRITERS Don’t keep this secret from your kids! It seems at first logical to dismiss playground time as non-academic. But point out to your kids that you notice them using skills on the playground that will actually help them with their writing. “YOU HAVE THE SKILLS YOU NEED TO WRITE!” Make a… Continue reading DON’T KEEP THIS SECRET FROM YOUR KIDS: PLAYGROUND SKILLS BUILD WRITERS
“Mom, Can You Listen To My Story?” Four Listening Secrets That No One Ever Told You “Mom will you listen to my story?” is such a beautiful question to hear when you are raising writers. Of course you want to read their story! There are few things more exciting than reading words your child has… Continue reading Mom, Can You Listen To My Story?
How To Create a Fairy Tale Family Tradition When my daughters were little, my dad used to tell them his version of The Three Little Pigs. To be fair, he was never big into storytelling, but he quickly discovered that storytelling held his grandchildren’s attention and created special moments with them. And so, he delighted… Continue reading FAIRY TALE FAMILY ACTIVITY
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